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- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Leading Change
performance of workers. To promote change across the manufacturing sector, Esquel sponsors an annual forum, the Integral Conversation, which brings together industry and government stakeholders to inspire... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
The Great Priority Reset
1998), CEO of the global airports and travel retail group daa plc since 2017. (He starts a new role as CEO of UK-based food manufacturer Greencore this fall.) This idea of “travel with intention” is a key trend in the View Details
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Archival Collections - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
Harvard Business School, including an extensive collection of student reports from the Manufacturing course. This collection also contains documents from Doriot's involvement with American Research and Development (ARD), including his... View Details
- 12 Feb 2016
- Op-Ed
The Real Jobs Tragedy in the US: We've Lost the Skills
America’s jobs market changed substantially. Harvard Business School research shows that between 1990 and 2014, America’s ability to generate “traded” jobs—that is, jobs in industries exposed to international competition—stalled sharply.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Drive-In Nation
industry shaped how America lived, worked, and played, helping the country grow into the colossus of the 20th century. But now the U.S. industry, once the bellwether of the nation’s economy, may become just another, ordinary player in a... View Details
- 05 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
Understanding the Process of Innovation
feedback on every idea, his reputation for deep knowledge, and the impressive industry contacts he's acquired have earned him a loyal following: his idea-generation process yields 200 interesting concepts a month. The Winnowing Phase The... View Details
Keywords: by Loren Gray
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Multimedia Simulation Provides Real-World Reality Check
four of these teams are then aggregated into an industry. Team members study data and collaborate on beer design, pricing, and packaging, as well as on decisions concerning manufacturing and marketing. After each round, reports are... View Details
- 02 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Disruptors Sell What Customers Want and Let Competitors Sell What They Don’t
Over the past two decades, entire industries have been disrupted by Internet competitors who "unbundled" their content and delivered it to consumers in new ways. Newspapers lost out to Google and Craigslist, record companies to iTunes and... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
Anand G. Mahindra, MBA 1981
Nature, Purpose, and Practice of the Movie Business, by David Mamet “My penchant is for building brands that find a place in the customer’s mind and for developing businesses that live or die by how well they connect with the consumer.” Anand Mahindra considered going... View Details
- 20 Jan 2016
- News
Water for the World
Jon Olafsson (OPM 24, 1996), a former music industry executive and media mogul, is chairman and cofounder of Icelandic Glacial, the world’s first certified carbon-neutral manufacturer of natural spring... View Details
- 17 Dec 2015
- News
Applying Strategy Concepts In Innovative Ways Through Technology
aggregated into an industry. Team members study data and collaborate on beer design, pricing, and packaging, as well as on decisions about manufacturing and marketing. After each round of play, reports are generated that include balance... View Details
- July 2025
- Module Note
Supply and Demand for Strategists
By: Quan Le
This module note introduces students to the foundational microeconomic principles of supply and demand. It uses the example of an aluminum plant (specifically, production quantity and shutdown decisions) to discuss short-run vs. long-run decisions, marginal costs, sunk... View Details
Keywords: Business Exit or Shutdown; Business or Company Management; Business Strategy; Competition; Competitive Advantage; Cost of Capital; Cost vs Benefits; Decision Making; Decisions; Demand and Consumers; Economics; Economic Systems; For-Profit Firms; Market Entry and Exit; Market Participation; Markets; Metals and Minerals; Microeconomics; Price; Revenue; Strategy; Supply and Industry; Manufacturing Industry
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Feedback
Research and Development Corporation’s investments. I haven’t regretted it to this day and am enjoying my retirement thanks to the professor. —Mel Saslow (MBA 1951) via alumni.hbs.edu One of Professor Doriot’s most interesting lectures in View Details
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Kristen Fitzpatrick
Kristen (HBS '03) is Managing Director, HBS Career and Professional Development. In this role, she coaches alumni and MBA students. Through her interactions with recruiters over the past decade, Kristen is familiar with many industries... View Details
- 13 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 13
Abstract This paper empirically investigates how market leadership influences firm propensity to adopt new business process innovations. Using a unique data set spanning roughly 35,000 plants in 86 U.S. manufacturing industries, I study... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Complete Package
important,” she says. Eighteen years later, Greenpac counts Fortune 500 companies among its industrial clients. The company is on the verge of international expansion, but Chong, who received the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year... View Details
Keywords: April White; entrepreneurship; sustainability; packaging; leadership; women; Manufacturing
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Innovation, Inc.
in Massachusetts that manufactures high-quality folding bicycles. The case illustrates the difficulties faced by a new company introducing innovation within an established industry. “Montague’s creative insight was to develop a folding... View Details
- 30 Jan 2021
- News
Finding a Fresh Approach to Dry Cleaning
many finish at half that number.” Simon, who earned a degree in engineering and worked in the manufacturing arm of a family business after his MBA, calls dry cleaning “the most challenging industry I have... View Details
- 06 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Circularity in Denmark
our first visit, Sr. Director of Technology Soren Kristiansen walked us through the LEGO Group’s efforts to develop the next generation of blocks. Their team is working in parallel on bio-based and recycled plastics, iterating on formulation and View Details
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Craig Baker
Craig Baker grew up in southeastern Idaho, and he finds it perfectly fitting that his first career assignment after completing his undergraduate degree in business and information-systems management took him into the potato field. “Double L View Details